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  1. To further put a point on my being out of touch @Thatguy, I have zero idea who Jonah Williams is and what hte Galveston Ball is. I'm assuming it's either a debutante ball thing or a kappa sea wall party or something in between. ETA found it! Jonah "Island Boi" Williams (his self-identifed sobriquet, not mine). Star Baseball player and hopefully one day star footballer as well!
  2. I don't have current high school athletes so my observations are second hand from friends and colleagues who still do, specifically at these schools and in this area, but I'll defer to you since you are living it right now and these kids are always changing and confounding us olds.
  3. That's about the long and short of it for a lot of us. My son is still trying to be a Mavs fan but he's lost a lot of..I don't even know what you'd call it-- faith? trust? respect? for the team and it's definitely a more muted emotional investment. I truly think if Cuban had a magic 8 ball and could see the future, for all his faults, he would not have sold his majority stake to these clowns and I think he'd have waited and done another deal if he wanted out. Right or wrong, this is a stain on his legacy whether he had the power to stop it or not-- perception is reality. And some for Nico. I'm in the camp that Nico was largely the empty suit on this and it was drive from above his paygrade and he was the fall-guy and patzi and is being paid to wear this scarlet letter. But if that's the case, he's not a very sympathetic victim in my eyes. He sold out his integrity and reputation and he will wear this albatross around his neck for the rest of his career. I would be surprised if he could reinvent himself when this is all over. He's going to need to just take his money and retire on a beach somewhere.
  4. This makes me both sad and makes my blood boil.
  5. Is the belt tightening cancelled now?
  6. That's how I understood it as well. @Thatguy also to note, from what I've seen in the area (Frisco/Prosper) these kids like the victim Austin Metcalf and others aren't track atheletes and hypertrained and focused on the sport. They are football players who do track in the Spring because their coaches ask them to and to maintain conditioning and training. They aren't growing up together as competitors in some AAU-version of track and have grown relationships around their competitors. Maybe for Karmelo Anthony it was different and there's a different sub-culture that I'm sure exists where there are kids that train and compete like your daughter, but I would venture a guess that your experience is not germane to what we are going to find out happened here when the dust settles. But until it plays out I guess we can all spill a lot of ink about it and listen to each other's Tent Talks.
  7. I'm laughing at the image of a self-described middle aged divorced suburban dad using AAVE to pick up the middle aged suburban mom.
  8. Good points and I honestly don't know with respect to Houston and the culture of highschools and track meets that you are describing. Maybe it's a universal experience with all teens and schools as you seem to suggest, but what makes you so sure of it? I moved to this area a few years ago and can say from my firsthand experience I'd never seen anything quite like it from my stints in other areas of Dallas, Austin and Houston.
  9. I get the sense that people from Austin and Houston are not able to grasp just how insular the communities and schools of Far North Texas are. I get the sense the watchers aren't there because teens are giggly and flirty with each other @Thatguy. These areas it's more likely there are watcher because they want make sure the kids zoned into their schools via apartments aren't stealing their things. I mean, the Fisco mascot was the Coons for the longest time and it was a running joke.
  10. Would love to hear more about this blackballing. Sounds like there is some government blackballing by tagging a SSN for getting a job?! That sounds so fake and dystopian, but I guess I could see it in this environment. Normally I'd say this is 100% your daughter misinterpreting but who knows now.
  11. Praise God the end of our national nightmare is over (for now). Never thought I'd say that with seriousness, but my portfolios are green for the first time in a while and my calls are calling and life is good again for a brief moment. "one shining momeeeennnnnt"
  12. Wick and Bond
  13. I'm with you. Landslide is too conservative a term for it.
  14. But what I am saying is that I think this time it would be different. Republicans, billionaires, the oligarchy are mad and would love the cover to plunge the knife in his back if he keeps bleeding their money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-billionaires-global-market-meltdown/
  15. Can't we find a reason to impeach this guy again? But this time oust him? Surely there has got to be something you can find in the cadre of misdeeds. The D party should be working OT to figure this out and put a plan into place you would think. Prove you have some dog in you, at least. Speaking for 24 hour straight isn't gonna do anything, we need action.
  16. I mean, some months have 5 weeks.
  17. The $163 million opening weekend of A Minecraft Movie is a huge success story and one that Hollywood's sorely needed in recent months. It's a bigger opening than Barbie, which went on to become the highest-grossing film in Warner Bros. history, and bigger than Inside Out 2, which was the highest-grossing film of 2024 with $1.7 billion at the global box office.
  18. I kept telling my wife we need to buy the new car before the tariffs and she didn't believe me. I bought it anyways in January and look like a genius. She doesn't acknowledge it though, but I know.
  19. I asked the young ones for an honest opinion when I picked them up and I think they summed it up best, "as a movie, like if I were to watch it alone, it's like a 5 or 6 at best. But watching it with friends (and I assume he meant engaging with it, laughing at it, the experience) it's a 10"
  20. zoomed in? It's top right pretty bold and easy to see. Just admit you made a mistake, it's still a funny headline and zinger.
  21. From what I understand about the situation, it actually went about as wrong and worse as it could physically and potentially go-- a one stab death. I read on here that is a low probability worse case scenario.
  22. With chainsaw tripling down on legal definitions to try and be right, it’s only getting funnier.
  23. It seems like people who have first-hand and recent and relevant experience are trying to educate you and others who might be 200 miles away on how it is in Frisco and whether it resonates with your experience or not shouldn't matter.
  24. I read that Karmelo had a GoFundMe hit $140k (but got pulled because of a violation of T's and C's from gofundme). Seems like a lot of folks feeling for him and his family. I think this story is just getting started as far as the "discourse". And Jimmy's lived experience of going to track meets wherever he is from is real and honest, I'm sure. It also has about as much relevance to a Frisco track meet as the price of tea in china. Not sure why he's dying on that hill.
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